It sounds like Microsoft didn't learn a lesson from a little company called Sega. What . . . you don't remember the Sega, Sega CD, Sega 32x and how can you say that you don't remember Sega DreamCast? They tried to bully Nintendo out of the market and only suceeded in disinfranchising their own people who had to keep buying upgrades or consoles over a very short period of time in order to play the cooler games.
Yeah, I think that is a pretty accurate comparison. I think a lot of X-Box owners are going to feel pretty angry and somewhat betrayed... especially because the X-Box will nt have the courtesy to be backwards compatible like the PS2 and PS3.
Plus, it looks like it is still going to lack internal memory capability. Weird.